Configuration bug: should not make in .../share/LaTeX/ if TeX is not present

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Sunday 01 October 2006 04:39 pm, Joe Koski wrote:
> 
> I'm saying the latter. LaTeX is not usually installed on Macs, and, for
> example, octave just ignores installing the octave LaTeX documentation on
> Macs. I don't think kpsexpand exists either

kpsexpand is part of TeX.

> I am always getting error messages about not finding kpsexpand

I used to get those messages too, clogging up my system log files.
I only recently learned that they were coming from gnuplot, and
tried to fix it.

It is *supposed* to be a configuration option now,
   ./configure --with-kpsexpand
    
I thought that fixed everything, but as you have found,
the .../share/LaTeX Makefile is still a problem.  

I'm not very good at this sort of build-time dependency.
Can someone fix it so that the descent into .../share/LaTeX
doesn't happen if TeX is not insalled?

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742